LiveView reverse-engineering effort

[GottZ]

its not done yet. will need to enable getpixel in chibios gfx in order to have clean alpha overlapping. (well you cant see it anyways on a video)

 

[manxam]

That looks excellent! Now a question. Will this be able to replace the default clock screen or will one have to hit the right button and choose a clock app? The few clock 'plugins' that I saw for the original Liveview seemed pointless when you still had the original clock and now had extra buttons to press in order to see a clock face..

 

[Cptnodegard]

Clocks looks great! I do agree it would have to be a replacement to really be practical though, not a plugin.

Btw, I'm having an issue with Tasker's persistent notification being reported by the LiveView seemingly at random, and more than once per connection session. Anyone else have that?

 

[GottZ]

its 100% natively running on the liveview.

its not just a clock replacement, its a firmware replacement. this means that it is far away from being usable since exception13 has not implemented bluetooth yet.
besides the usability i think about some kind of settings menu to choose if you prefer an analog clock or a digital one.

edit:
i also think about adding seconds as optional choice but well.. this and a settings menu would require to be able to write to the rom by the rom. i dont yet know how but i know its possible.

Sent from my HTC Vision using xda app-developers app

 

[renzenicolai]

Great work so far. Got a LiveView that's literally just collecting dust.

Anyways, has anyone thought about a Tasker plugin for OLV? Seems to me to be the simplest way to get more functionality in there

For instance, I'd like to incorporate this with my Tasker based todo list, so that it send me my shopping list when I leave the house. Right now it "only" puts it on my lock screen. This was/is possible through stock LiveView by using the open watch plugin, but it wasn't great. I can technically do it right now, by simply making it create notifications, but being able to send Notes via Tasker would be epic

Can you broadcast intents from Tasker? (I've never used it)
If you can you can send an intent named "OLV_ADD_NOTIFICATION" with the following extras:
timestamp: long, contains unix time in seconds
type: int, 0 for generic, 1 for Android notification, 2 for SMS message and 3 for note
title: string, title of the alert
contents: string, contents of the alert


Alternative: If you can execute a console command in the shell of your phone you can try the following command:

am broadcast -a OLV_ADD_NOTIFICATION --el timestamp 0 --ei type 3 --es title "Title of your alert" --es contents "Contents of your alert"

(in combination with the latest version of OLV released in this topic a note should be added to the list of messages. This command does not notify the user that there is a new notification)


Please note that the name of this intent will change soon.
(Also note that there are other commands you can execute with intents too, like making the liveview vibrate or awaking the lv from standby. These commands are all part of the plugin API I am working on, so they may change in the future.)

 

[TpmKranz]

Blacklisting

Hi there, I haven't been in this thread for a while and I just wanted to ask if somebody added blacklisting.
If this is not the case, I will just leave my idea here (see attachment). The edited files are res/values/strings.xml, res/layout/activity_expert_config.xml, src/nl/rnplus/olv/service/GetNotificationService.java, src/nl/rnplus/olv/data/Prefs.java and src/nl/rnplus/olv/ExpertConfigActivity.java (just Ctrl+F for "TpmKranz" and you will see what I've done).
At the moment it's quite unhandy (therefore in Advanced settings) - it is based on comma-seperated lists. In the "Notification type filter" text field, one can insert "android.app.Notification", which would block statusbar notifications, "android.widget.Toast$TN", which would block toast messages or "android.app.Notification,android.widget.Toast$TN" which would block both (but is counterproductive, actually, for this are the only types of notification OLV catches). In the "Notification origin filter" text field, one can insert a comma-seperated list of package names that should get blocked, so "com.noshufou.android.su" would block the "... has been granted Superuser permissions." toasts from the Superuser app. Of course the quotation marks don't belong into the text fields.
I will continue working on that to make it easier to choose blocked apps and make the toast-statusbar-thing a little less complicated (as you will see, it is quite over the top at the moment).
Feedback is appreciated - a potential tester can just install the bin/MainActivity.apk after uninstalling the official version of OLV (sorry, different signatures) and play a little with my changes if he/she would like to (I've deactivated the original "Notification filter" text field, because it doesn't serve a purpose in my version).

 

[TpmKranz]

Hi there, I haven't been in this thread for a while and I just wanted to ask if somebody added blacklisting.
[..]

I've improved my implementation of filtering notifications, but see yourself (you will need to click the thumbnails to see the screenshots in their full size):

1. I'll tap "Advanced settings".
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2. You might see where to go now. Just ignore the "Notification filter" text field.
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3. Here we are. I'd like to filter notifications that come from the original SMS app, because I've got Ghostly SMS which notifies me of arriving short messages. So I'll add an app to the filter list. Creating the list of apps may take some time and Android might even tell you that the app doesn't respond - just wait until the list appears!
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4. Here I can choose which app to add to the list.
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5. You see that I've added several apps to the list: Superuser because my LiveView doesn't want to know if an app acts as root, Terminal Emulator because I usually see by myself that a terminal session is running and... oops, Ghostly SMS which should actually notify me of short messages...
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6. ...I can easily correct this by tapping "Ghostly SMS" in the list. Then I remember that toast messages have been annoying me since I first installed OLV...
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7. ...So I'll tap "Set filter mode" and voila: there is an option for that along with the option to block status bar notifications (actually just for completeness) and the option to don't set that filter.
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For renzenicolai and anybody else interested in what I've done to the code. To quickly find what I've edited, just Ctrl+F for "TpmKranz" in edited files, these comments are just there for finding changes, I don't necessarily want them to appear in your repos. I've done these changes on a fresh clone of your repos so ignore anything from my last post:

added src/nl/rnplus/olv/data/FilterEditor.java
added src/nl/rnplus/olv/data/AppDialog.java
added src/nl/rnplus/olv/data/AppArrayAdapter.java
added res/layout/activity_filter_editor.xml
added res/layout/app_dialog_rowlayout.xml
added res/values/styles.xml
added res/values-v11/styles.xml
added res/drawable-{h,m,xh}dpi/ic_default.png
edited src/nl/rnplus/olv/data/Prefs.java
edited src/nl/rnplus/olv/service/GetNotificationService.java
edited src/nl/rnplus/olv/service/OldGetNotificationService.java
edited src/nl/rnplus/olv/ExpertConfigActivity.java
edited res/layout/activity_expert_config.xml
edited res/values/strings.xml
edited AndroidManifest.xml

And again: Anyone who wants to test it (and give feedback) may do so by installing bin/MainActivity.apk after uninstalling OLV.

 

[manxam]

Wow, just the ability to toggle all toasts off saves about 100 notifications an hour for me. Every time es file explorer performance an operation it shows a toast message. Numerous other programs that I use do the same. Thanks alot for this modification!

Cheers!

 

[renzenicolai]

Thank you TpmKranz!

Signed version of OLV so you guys won't have to reinstall it:
https://code.google.com/p/openliveview/downloads/detail?name=OLV06012013.apk

Changelog:
- Added TpmKranz filter.
- Switched to dashboard layout for the main activity.

Invisible changes:
- Started working on the plugin api

To do:
- Rewrite the database code


Request:
Can someone draw a couple of icons (or take them from the android resources)?
- Icon for notes (for use on the liveview)
- Icon for sms messages (for use on the liveview)
- Any other icon that you want to see replaced
- Any other icon that you want to add (for future use)

Icons that are going to be used on the lv should:
- have a size of 36x36 px
- be in the png format
- have no transparency
(I attached a couple of the icons currently used in OLV)

Thank you all for your help, support and feedback!

 

[TpmKranz]

Thank you TpmKranz!

Signed version of OLV so you guys won't have to reinstall it:
https://code.google.com/p/openliveview/downloads/detail?name=OLV06012013.apk
[...]

Oh, thank you for the new layout and for adding the "Building app list [...]" popup. I look forward to seeing the new code as I would like to learn how this popup is implemented and because I want to polish the UI of the filter editor a little (and maybe try to optimize the app chooser).

 

[renzenicolai]

I just added "ProgressDialog loadingDialog;" to the activity, which I initialize in the onCreate() function:

loadingDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);
loadingDialog.setMessage(getString(R.string.prefs_filtereditor_btn_wait));

Showing the dialog is realy simple:
loadingDialog.show();

Just as hiding:
loadingDialog.dismiss();

 

[Yagami_ex]

This is great!!!

I have liveview and saw that sony practically abandoned our gadget, and this project revives the liveview, then I would help, if you want to translate the app into Portuguese of Brazil, I'm ready, I want to contribute to the app, but I do not know programming, then it would translate if necessary.
Congratulations on your initiative

 

[kingstonxl]

I have liveview and saw that sony practically abandoned our gadget, and this project revives the liveview, then I would help, if you want to translate the app into Portuguese of Brazil, I'm ready, I want to contribute to the app, but I do not know programming, then it would translate if necessary.
Congratulations on your initiative

Hold on theres stll lot of work to be done and tranlation is last one we need now

Sent from my Xperia X10 using xda app-developers app

 

[manxam]

I really appreciate all of the work that you guys have done. Keep up the good work. Cheers!

 

[gabbadoo]

Mirrored icons

Here are some icons i started to "design" in the last week. I found an iconset on the net and mixed it with my ideas. I'm not a designer and my skills are just copy&paste, so please don't expect to much.
Any feedback is welcome!

 

[manxam]

I'm running the most recent version posted in this thread (OLV06012013.apk) and no longer get notifications sent to the device. I do not get alerts / vibrations sent to the device. When I know that an sms is received I can check the device and it will display the received sms but gives no prior indication that one has arrived. Is anyone else experiencing this?

 

[renzenicolai]

I'm running the most recent version posted in this thread (with the new menu structure) and no longer get notifications sent to the device. I do not get alerts / vibrations sent to the device. When I know that an sms is received I can check the device and it will display the received sms but gives no prior indication that one has arrived. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Did you check your settings? Also try to (re-)enable the accessibility service in the Android settings.

 

[manxam]

Did you check your settings? Also try to (re-)enable the accessibility service in the Android settings.

I just did a clear data and re-setup in case and this forced me to re-enable the accessibility service. Unfortunately I'm still not getting the notifications. After the clear data I made NO alterations to the default config to test so it should "just work" as it did in past.

Thanks for your help!

 

[renzenicolai]

Can you send me a logcat?

 

[manxam]

Can you send me a logcat?

I'm assuming from the Phone or does the liveview support adb as well?

---------- Post added at 04:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:36 PM ----------

Pastebin from phone HERE.. There appears to be several errors noting "OpenLiveView(25113): Something went wrong in EventReader."

BTW, this is a flush of the logcat. A connect of the liveview from a powered off and disconnected state. A sent text message and then me checking the text message on the liveview.

Thanks again for your help!

---------- Post added at 05:04 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:47 PM ----------

Update.. All of a sudden it started working??